Face to Face 2003

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Face to Face 2003
Tour by Elton John and Billy Joel
Start date21 February 2003
End date8 May 2003
Legs1
No. of shows28
Elton John tour chronology
2003 Tour
(2003)		Face to Face 2003
(2003)		 2004 Tour
(2004)
Billy Joel tour chronology
Face to Face 2002
(2002)		Face to Face 2003
(2003)		 Face to Face 2009
(2009)

Face to Face 2003 was a concert tour by Elton John and Billy Joel. The pair performed under the Face to Face concert series, which was constantly proving more popular amongst fans. [1] [2]

Contents

The tour started on 21 February in Birmingham, Alabama [3] and travelled throughout the United States for twenty four concert [4] dates until 8 May in Rosemont, Illinois, where the tour came to a close after this concert had been rescheduled from March. [5]

Joel stated in 2012 that he would no longer tour with Elton because it restrains his setlists. [6] [7]

Set list

This set list is representative of the first performance in Las Vegas. It does not represent all concerts for the duration of the tour. [8]

Elton and Billy with the band

  1. "Your Song"
  2. "Just the Way You Are"
  3. "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"

Elton John with his band

  1. "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding"
  2. "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
  3. "Philadelphia Freedom"
  4. "The Wasteland"
  5. "I Want Love"
  6. "Rocket Man"
  7. "Take Me to the Pilot"
  8. "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
  9. "Tiny Dancer"
  10. "Crocodile Rock"

Billy Joel with his band

  1. "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant"
  2. "Movin' Out"
  3. "Prelude/Angry Young Man"
  4. "Allentown"
  5. "An Innocent Man"
  6. "The River of Dreams"
  7. "I Go to Extremes"
  8. "New York State of Mind"
  9. "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
  10. "Only the Good Die Young"

Billy and Elton with the band

  1. "My Life"
  2. "The Bitch Is Back"
  3. "You May Be Right"
  4. "Bennie and the Jets"
  5. "A Hard Day's Night"
  6. "Great Balls of Fire"
  7. "Piano Man"

Tour dates

List of concerts, showing date, city, country, venue, tickets sold, number of available tickets and amount of gross revenue
DateCityCountryVenueAttendanceRevenue
North America [9]
21 February 2003 Birmingham United States Birmingham–Jefferson Convention Complex 17,398 / 17,398$1,930,860
24 February 2003 Houston Compaq Center 16,160 / 16,160$2,043,984
26 February 2003 San Antonio SBC Center 16,835 / 16,835$1,407,325
28 February 2003 Dallas American Airlines Center 17,881 / 17,881$1,937,460
2 March 2003 Oklahoma City Ford Center 17,871 / 17,871$1,941,910
4 March 2003 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse 15,644 / 15,644$1,706,866
7 March 2003 Pittsburgh Mellon Arena 16,684 / 16,684$1,765,475
9 March 2003 Buffalo HSBC Arena 18,727 / 18,727$1,996,750
12 March 2003 Lexington Rupp Arena ——
14 March 2003 Columbia Carolina Center 15,672 / 15,672$1,394,470
16 March 2003 Raleigh RBC Center 18,505 / 18,505$1,861,195
28 March 2003 Paradise MGM Grand Garden Arena 27,418 / 27,418$4,462,200
29 March 2003
1 April 2003 Ames Hilton Coliseum 14,400 / 14,400$1,436,215
6 April 2003 Madison Kohl Center 15,854 / 15,854$1,752,050
8 April 2003 Milwaukee Bradley Center 17,647 / 17,647$2,073,705
12 April 2003 Rosemont Allstate Arena —$5,912,385
15 April 2003 Cleveland Gund Arena 19,777 / 19,777$2,187,660
17 April 2003 St. Paul Xcel Energy Center 18,162 / 18,162$2,194,690
19 April 2003 Fargo Fargodome 22,852 / 22,852$1,675,477
22 April 2003 Columbus Nationwide Arena 23,782 / 23,782$1,877,400
24 April 2003 Albany Pepsi Arena 31,015 / 31,015$3,547,735
26 April 2003
30 April 2003RosemontAllstate Arena— [lower-alpha 1]
2 May 2003 Auburn Hills The Palace of Auburn Hills 41,836 / 41,836$4,669,250
3 May 2003
5 May 2003 St. Louis Savvis Center 18,247 / 18,247$1,964,765
8 May 2003RosemontAllstate Arena— [lower-alpha 1]
Total405,683 / 405,683$49,974,352

Notes

  1. 1 2 The gross data is representative of the three shows in Rosemont, Illinois at the Allstate Arena on 10 April, 30 April, and 8 May respectively.

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References

  1. ↑ Archived 26 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine billyjoel.com, Retrieved 2 September 2011
  2. ↑ Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine eltonography.com, Retrieved 2 September 2011
  3. ↑ top40-chart.com, Retrieved 2 September 2011
  4. ↑ billyjoelfan.com, Retrieved 2 September 2011
  5. ↑ thisdayinrock.com, Retrieved 2 September 2011
  6. ↑ "Billy Joel Won't Tour with Elton due to Setlist Constraints". EltonDaily.com. 3 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  7. ↑ "Billy Joel mixes lots of music into his Q&A". Gainesville.com. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  8. ↑ Spencer Patterson (28 March 2003). "Yin/yang relationship keys John/Joel tour". Las Vegas Sun . Retrieved 22 June 2014.
  9. ↑ Box score:
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